Haha truth. I just buy a bike, take it to a buddies house, take it apart and bring it in the garage in pieces. Over the next few months, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, a bike magically appears. When asked, I explain it's built from parts.

Oh and a storage unit

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We're not out here to rough it. We're here to smooth it. Things are rough enough in town.

Trick learned from MCMANN... find the bike ya want , one that your wife would adamantly oppose ..tell her you are thinking about early retirement...fearing the end to her shoe collection ( Mortimersickle), she gives in without a whimper.

Beware - if you go ahead and retire anyway, bad JuJu ahead ;-)

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"Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization"

Wifey says this,wifey says that.
Guys who make their wife sound like their mom crack me up.
I like it when a guy will come here to buy a bike,he wants it,hes ready to guy it,but the classic " I gotta see if my wife will let me" comes up. I couldnt bring myself to say such a thing.

Yeah, it's better to take the beating from the wife than to say that in front of another living human being.

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"Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization"

The last couple years have been an easy sell for me for new bikes and gear. My wife started riding her own bike two years ago and now she is the one suggesting to me we need new farkles and riding gear. She has two bikes and I have three. She wished she would have started riding ten years ago. She loves it.
On our travels, many riders have told me: "Don't tell your wife, but you are a lucky man."

Just last night, I brought home a friends KTM 990 to test out, since he's selling it. Wife wasn't too happy about this.
But she knows my plan is to pass on my Husky TE610 to my son so that we could transition from off road to dual sport. As I sit here watching the funeral for Officer Michael Crain, Riverside PD, I realize that life IS too short. There is a saying that, "Life is uncertain, death is not". Gonna have some fun with my boy before he's off to college, military etc. (Sorry if I went all Plato/Aristotle on you guys/gals).

Just last night, I brought home a friends KTM 990 to test out, since he's selling it. Wife wasn't too happy about this.
But she knows my plan is to pass on my Husky TE610 to my son so that we could transition from off road to dual sport. As I sit here watching the funeral for Officer Michael Crain, Riverside PD, I realize that life IS too short. There is a saying that, "Life is uncertain, death is not". Gonna have some fun with my boy before he's off to college, military etc. (Sorry if I went all Plato/Aristotle on you guys/gals).

Some of the most memorable times I have had in my life were riding with my son...hours together and you aren't being some boring ole dad, something in common years later...he loved my KTM too, by the way..

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"Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization"